Everything I love about Wicked

A comprehensive but non-exhaustive list

(also including some fun facts)

Opening

• old school universal logo
• big brassy opening
• camera flys over the rainbow

No one mourns the wicked

• they planted all those tulips thats real!
• the munchkinland set
• ozian words (I’m gonna list them all): rejoicify
• “It’s good to see me isnt it”
• Ari’s shoulder jewels
• “protect yourself: water will melt her” sign
• tulip noisemakers
• confusifying
• that pop up book transition
• Ari’s face, you can see she’s torn
• that operatic soprano vocal at the end of that bombastic closer
• the bubble pop

Shiz

• the set (its real! including the river!)
• popsicle
• Ari’s leg kicks
• Bowen’s glasses
• toss-toss
• monocled shoebill
• michelle yeoh (thats one hot old lady)
• congratulotions, linguification
• telekinetic superpowers (always wanted those)
• covered up animal professor mural (intriguing)
• fun fact: the elphaba comes from L. F(rank) Ba(um)
• “We need a pastry!”
• definish

The Wizard and I

• this is maybe my favorite Cynthia song (not counting defying gravity)
• throughout the song Elphaba is ascending
• the stained glass changing her skintone
• key change to the unlimited melody
• the field doesnt have anyone elses footprints (i always look for that in movies)
• cynthia belting closer

Dormitory/What is this Feeling?

• the set (ok i love all the sets)
• It’s Great!
• Glindas monogramed stationary
• Blonde
• this is my favorite Cynthia/Ari duet (not counting defying gravity)
• the choreo
• Ari’s bowstaff fighting heels
• Boo! (cackle)

History/Sorcery Class

• Peter Dinklage
• pronouncify
• solar mirror based projector systems
• Morribles choker necklace
• the asymmetry of Morribles outfit/hair

Dillamond’s house

• moustachioed snow leopards and tamarins
• goat-centric tea brewing systems

Fiyero intro/Dancing through life

• Ari’s excessive perfumery
• Ari’s dress with bubble accents
• rotational book organization/storage systems
• medium rare books
• scandalocious
• Book choreography
• Library parkour
• If Ari smiled at me the way she smiles at Johnny i’d leave my wife too
• Boq: “I cry a lot” lol

Ozdust

• hideoteous
• marissa so cute
• gratitution
• “i’m a sorceress not a mindreader”
• that melancholy dancing through life piano melody
• convincing a crowd to do your weird dance

Popular

• maybe my favorite Ari song
• Ari’s nightgown
• dramatic collapse on the bed
• Ari’s dimples
• “Lets not quarrel!”
• Ari’s rawr growls
• chandalier swinging
• mechanized trunks
• ruby shoes
• -Lar? lol
• “Right!” (slams book)
• toss-toss™
• froat
• pink goes good with green
• Ari loving her reflection
• high kicks in the pink hall

dillamond capture/cub rescue

• the evolution of elphaba’s wardrobe and hair
• WoO foreshadowing (bicycles with baskets, poppies, etc)

Emerald City train/One short day

• clockwork balloon based message delivery systems
• ceremonioushly
• steampunk trains (its real! and weighs 16 tons)
• moodified
• Glinda, such braverism
• The emerald city set! (obvs)
• chickens in top hats (easy to miss!)
• hoi polloi
• hummingbird manicures
• IDINA AND KRISTEN!!
• kristen losing her magic
• kristen soprano moment
• idina does the war cry
• winnie holzman (screenplay writer) cameo
• kristen with ari and idina is with cynthia
• so many crazy costumes
• steve schwartz is the wizard will see you now guy

emerald palace/defying gravity

• heterochromia monkey
• the architectural shift from shiz
• the animantronic head was real
• jeff motherfucking goldblum
• “its a bit much, but people have come to expect that sorta thing”
• michelle yeoh’s commanding presence
• manifestorium
• the broom
• that transition from unlimited to defying
• the cape
• cynthia live singing, in a corset, in a harness, flying through the air while staying in character
• look-to-the-western-sky sass
• the war cry